Police Release Sketch In Screwdriver Attacks

Published: June 4, 1991

A composite sketch of a suspect wanted in a series of screwdriver attacks on women as they left IRT subway stations in Greenwich Village and SoHo was released yesterday by the police.

The suspect was described as a heavyset black man about 25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 225 pounds.

The transit police said a black and gold Stanley screwdriver with a three-to-four-inch blade had been found on a divider at East Houston Street and Broadway, near the Broadway-Lafayette subway station, where the latest and most serious attack occurred, on Saturday morning.

The victim of the most recent attack, a 28-year-old woman, was in stable condition at Beth Israel Medical Center recovering from multiple puncture wounds of the back, face and buttocks.

Photo: The composite sketch of the suspect wanted in a series of screwdriver attacks on women.